If I might add my opinion, this strikes me as a good idea, but it depends on how it
scrapes tags, and the tags need to be fairly exact in regards to version information.
For instance, if an extension is confirmed working for "1.17" and
"1.18" but there are no tags for 1.19.2 or higher, this still gives incomplete
information on extension compatibility. However, I do agree it is better than nothing, and
since changes on MediaWiki have to be preapproved, the information would be fairly
reliable.
Ideally, I'd like the tagging system (if one was to be implemented) to scrape the
MediaWiki version information from the infobox at the right of the extension page, like
this one:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter
The scrape should get the following: "1.13+"
Of course, everyone else might have different ideas, but I think the information scrape
proposal has merit.
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:05:53 -0500
From: mah(a)everybody.org
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Tarball upgrade very smooth, and a suggestion re: extensions
On 11/23/2012 10:39 AM, David Gerard wrote:
A suggestion: How feasible would it be for the
upgrader to (a) detect
extensions in use (b) check their
mediawiki.org page re:
upgradeability [template-scraping] and give their status?
I love this idea. Other OSS software does a lot more than MW in the
area of updatability. We should definitely implement this.
Bug filed:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42393
Note that there may be more work needed, but we definitely need
*something* like this.
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